House of Pounding Hearts audiobook cover - A half-Crow, half-Shabbin girl wakes a sky-king from stone and learns she may be the only one who can break an ancient curse. But falling for the monster everyone fears, returning to a city that hates her, and being told she might have to kill the man she once loved? That’s where this pounding heart really starts.

House of Pounding Hearts

A half-Crow, half-Shabbin girl wakes a sky-king from stone and learns she may be the only one who can break an ancient curse. But falling for the monster everyone fears, returning to a city that hates her, and being told she might have to kill the man she once loved? That’s where this pounding heart really starts.

Olivia Wildenstein

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Description

Fallon Báeinach should be a nobody from a canal-side tavern in Tarelexo. Instead, she’s the half-Crow, half-Shabbin girl who wakes Lorcan Ríhbiadh—the legendary King of the Sky—from obsidian slumber. The Sky Kingdom rises. Old wounds flare. And a queenless Luce stares down two rulers: a feathered storm and a golden liar.

Between a mating bond she doesn’t want to admit, a mother bound by blood magic, and a city that vandalizes her home and spits her name, Fallon’s choices get harsher. Her found family fractures. Her real father—Crow general Cathal—turns fiercely protective. And Bronwen, the scarred seer tied to both Fae and Crows, drops a vision Fallon can’t swallow: to save Luce, she must kill Dante, the boy she once loved.

House of Pounding Hearts is a high-stakes, slow-burn fantasy romance about found family, curses, and the cost of freedom. Expect shapeshifters with iron talons, blood-bound witches, a ruthless resistance, and a heroine whose heart beats louder each time she’s told to be quiet.

Who Should Listen

  • Romantic fantasy listeners who crave enemies-to-lovers with real stakes
  • Fans of found family and political intrigue wrapped in slow-burn chemistry
  • Anyone who loves shapeshifters, witches, and a heroine who chooses her crown

About the Authors

Olivia Wildenstein writes lush romantic fantasy and contemporary romance. Raised between languages and continents, she builds worlds where fierce heroines, devoted monsters, and stubborn hearts collide. When she isn’t plotting impossible choices for her characters, she’s reading, mothering, or searching for the perfect cup of tea.